Graduate student applications for 2017ff admission are currently being sought. If you are interested in graduate studies (MSc or PhD) in biophysics, neuroscience, psychophysics, acoustics, and/or nonlinear dynamics, please take a look at our research below and consider applying anytime. See here for more details. The lab is also affiliated with the York graduate programs in psychology, biology, and neuroscience (i.e., you can apply through those programs). Domestic (i.e., Canadian) students in particular are encouraged to apply. Feel free to get in touch with any questions.

York University Department of Physics & Astronomy hosted a Biophysics Contest, open to all Ontario high school students and with substantial cash awards. Contest details can be found here) while winners are described here

Simple code that allows you to listen to a spontaneous otoacoustic emission. Via Matlab, you can filter the signal (either high-pass or band-pass) and play it back out. Note that your ear can pick up quite readily what the statistics does for you (i.e. for filtered noise, the amplitude modulation is quite noticeable while for an SOAE, you can hear the stable amplitude). The zipped file should contain everything you need (including an SOAE time waveform from a human female ear containing several nice peaks). [posted July. 2009]

Spontaneous otoacoustic emission data taken from an adult Tokay gecko on 7/19/07. The file is a large time waveform (60 s long at a sample rate of 22050 Hz). For convenience, this file shows how to plot the resulting (averaged) spectrum in order to visualize the SOAE peaks, but many other insightful forms of analysis could be done..... [posted Feb. 2009]

Data on various aspects of cochlear morphology across a wide range of species compiled from various sources. Insightful to plot and do various statistical analyses on. Two files are included (and intended for use in Matlab): this file will create a structure in Matlab containing the data, while this file provides an example of how to extract and plot the data from said structure [posted Feb. 2009]

Math Instruction Colloquium [~0.9 MB pdf, Jan. 2009] Talk given to the mathematics education group at the University of Arizona. Talk highlights some of the challenges associated with integrating mathematics and biology pedagogy.

Mathematical Physics Seminar [~3 MB pdf, Sept. 2008] - Slides from a talk outlining proportionality between phase-gradient delay and tuning bandwidth for the harmonic oscillator. Also fleshes out SFOAE model for the lizard ear, extending the result derived for the HO